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Observant fans of Charles Band's body of work (yes, they do exist) should spot the numerous visual references to other Band films. Head Turns and Mouth Moves while he speaks 4 Frightening Phrases Arms Raise and Lower in a menacing motion Glaring Light-Up.

It was directed by John Carl Buechler, written by Don Mancini (credited as Kit Du Bois), and stars Debrah Farentino and Brian Robbins. This admittedly cool concept and the rather effective monster are dampened a bit by a flippant, tongue-in-cheek attitude (a more ominous, Lovecraftian tone would have been more effective), but makeup-man-turned-director John Buechler shows a definite flair for imbuing his beast with a suitably sinister personality. Cellar Dweller is a 1988 American monster horror film about a comic book artist who unleashes a demon after drawing it. History repeats itself (naturally) and the creature emerges to stalk and maul anew. Colin Childress (Jeffrey Combs), a highly successful comic book artist who gains inspiration from a mystical book of horrific.

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One of the students pursues her obsession with reviving the 'Cellar Dweller' comic series herself, delving into Combs' old studio for inspiration, and eventually discovers the same occult manuscript secreted in the basement. The story picks up again in the 1980's, where the late artist's palatial home has been converted into a combination boarding house and art academy led by Yvonne De Carlo. He’s the comic artist who inspires our lead, Farentino, and first unleashes the demon into our world with his naughty stories (a side note, Coombs is actually pretending to draw black and white art by Frank Brunner, who started his career as an artist on magazines like Creepy and Eerie before working with Steve Engelhart on Marvel’s Doctor Strange).ĬELLAR DWELLER is disposable fun but, as always, give me eighties jolly nonsense any day over a modern piece of rubbish that’s just as rough but takes itself twice as seriously.A quaint, stagebound little horror film from Charles Band's Empire Pictures, Cellar Dweller stars Jeffrey Combs (fresh off his glorious turn as Herbert West in the Empire-produced Re-Animator) as a '50s horror-comic artist who falls prey to one of his own creations - a ferocious demon he based on a drawing from an arcane book of spells and curses.

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This DVD is clearly taken from a VHS transfer actually, there’s a flicker of horizontal tape damage at the start that made me smile with nostalgia (perhaps I should have been grumpy about it but I wasn’t, I was pleased, the movie looks fine and I’m an old fool).ĭon’t get your hopes up with regards the presence of Charle Band regular, Jeffery Coombs, he’s only playing a cameo at the start of the movie. It’s a cheap bit of VHS fodder that is never going to find itself lauded but will at least pass the brief time its with you in an amusing fashion.

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A 70 minute and loose change (the opening titles go on forever) example of Empire Pictures output, the forerunner to Charles Band’s Full Moon Entertainment. But it’s fun tosh and that makes all the difference. Naturally, CELLAR DWELLAR is a load of old tosh.

Which is a shame as I’d love to go and write my next novel in one because they’re run by Yvonne De Carlo and they look fun, even if the comic artist has brought a powerful demon to life and it’s bumping the talentless residents off one by one. An inhabitant or permanent resident of a room or group of rooms below the ground level and usually under a building often a relative or child. Cellar Dweller 1988, Horror, 1h 17m - Tomatometer 3 Reviews 24 Audience Score 250+ Ratings Cellar Dweller Photos View All Photos (10) Movie Info Colin Childress (Jeffrey Combs), a highly. What do you call those artist communes you see in films? You know, where one artist is doing weird things with video, another’s writing a crime novel, a third is painting like a child, a fourth indulging in performance art and a fifth drawing horror comics? Ah yes, ‘fictional’. STARRING: Yvonne De Carlo, Debrah Farentino, Brian Robbins, Pamela Bellwood, Jeffrey Coombs

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